intestines or the gastrointestinal tract. • Viral infection is the most common cause of gastroenteritis but bacteria‚ parasites‚ and food-borne illness (such as shellfish) can also cause acute gastroenteritis. • Fifty to seventy percent of cases of gastroenteritis in adults are caused by the noroviruses while rotavirus is the leading cause of infection in children. Staphylococcus aureus can form a toxin that cause food poisoning while the resident Escherichia coli can also cause significant
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Cultural and Disease: Lupus Shera Frederick HCS245 May 29‚ 2013 Janice Withycombe Cultural and Disease Paper: Lupus Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with lupus? Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that attacks the body’s own tissue and organs‚ and the body’s systems. The most prominent symptoms of lupus you will start to notice are fatigue‚ fever‚ severe joint pain‚ skin lesions and dry eyes. Some of the bigger issues a person will start to endure are chest pain‚ shortness
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Cancer and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: How are they similar yet different? Cancer and Lupus: How are they similar yet different? Cancer and Lupus are significant diseases of today that have no cures and kill millions. Cancer and Lupus can be treated with success‚ giving extended life to those patients diagnosis with such lethal illnesses. Daily citizens around the world raise awareness for a cure of both Cancer and Lupus. “Cancer and Lupus are two difference diseases
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Your post provided some insightful information. I recognized the trauma that was inflicted on Laura by her mother during the early stages of her life‚ but I had not taken into consideration that the excessive amounts of time spent in the hospital only added to the fragile mother /daughter disconnection. Virginia was an adequate “care provider” for her daughter‚ but she lacked the necessary maternal skills needed for Laura to sustain healthy growth. Since there are still emotional scars in the relationship
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of: the autoimmune condition called lupus. Because of the influences in Will’s life‚ he chose to bring attention to this disease. Did you know that in the past 40 years there have been no new advances in medicine for treating lupus? According to the Lupus Research Institute‚ there are over 1.5 million people in the United States alone that have been diagnosed with lupus ("Lupus Research
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Hypertension High blood pressure is also known as hypertension is on the rise among all age groups due to poor dietary habit‚ aging‚ and sedentary/behavioral lifestyle. However‚ health care providers‚ patients‚ dieticians‚ and parents can jointly work together to eliminate this silent killer. The seventh Joint National Committee defines hypertension as a sustained systolic blood pressure above 140 mm Hg or higher or a diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or above in three separate occasions. However‚ one
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There exists an article regarding the legal protest rules of nurses‚ within the medical field. According to the Carolan‚ (2000) academic journal‚ Nurses that are bonded with unions have the legal ability to “walk off the job” when unfair work conditions are noted. The rule only applies if the nurses negotiation agreements‚ does not contain a clause that prohibits striking (Carolan‚ 2000). The workplace policy does not apply to the nurses that are not unionized. The Carolan (2000) academic journal
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What is Lupus? Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can effect and damage almost any part or role of the body and is chronic which means it can last six weeks to even years. It occurs when for some reason the body’s healthy cells that make up your immune system can no longer distinguish between a virus/ germ and a healthy cell. In a normal immune system the healthy white blood cells send antibodies that attack foreign cells that are in the body‚ but with a Lupus infected immune system the white blood
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Case studies have been great tool for me to learn evidence based nursing that will be put into nursing practice. Retrieving information‚ recognizing deviations from “normal”‚ interpreting and prioritizing data to plan patient specific interventions are all skills that I have developed from case study analyses. Different from SIM where we have to think on our feet and rely on the skills that we have learned‚ theory case studies are written‚ allowing us to track a nursing issue through all the stages
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Patients who present to the ER with abdominal pain are often complicated cases with the abdomen housing so many organs. Trying to figure out what is going on with your patient is made more difficult because of referred pain. When trying to figure out where to start remembering your ABC’s will assist in determining if your patient is stable or unstable. Remembering which organs are located within each abdominal region will assist you in narrowing down the potential diagnosis. With the ER patient
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